Senior Accountant

Opportunity to gain exposure across accounting, finance, investments, deal team, fund operations - working alongside all former athletes, and former big 4 professionals.

This role is with a Family office right here in NYC that operates very much like a hedge fund. The people that work here are young, energetic and eager to help this person grow with the firm, and gain a ton of exposure across accounting and finance.

The family office has various private equity & hedge fund investments, in addition to running an operating business.

The Founder is looking to allocate large amounts of additional capital to invest in various industries as the office develops over the coming months and years. The current team comprises of the Founder, his 3 brothers of whom each bring 25+ years of hedge fund, banking, and legal experience, in addition to the company COO.

• 2-5 years of public accounting experience, preferably from Big 4 (PE/HF clients OR TAX - HNW, partnerships, trusts / OR Auditing Fund clients
• Active CPA License.
• Must have strong knowledge of trusts, gifting, foundations, and partnership taxation, particularly as it relates to alternative investments.
• Must have strong knowledge of taxation of financial instruments and general familiarity with financial products and trading including stocks, bonds, options and other derivatives.
• Must have the ability to perform tax research and opine on it.
• Must be extremely accurate, detailed, and organized. A sense of responsibility.
• Experience working with accounting software, with the ability and desire to learn SEI Family Office Software.
• Highly proficient in excel.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to take an initiative, work independently, and speak up.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

• Will need to be trained in and become an expert of SEI Family Office Software.
• Prepare daily accounting entries for all family office entities, including trusts, partnerships, management companies, and foundations (around 20% of workload).
• Analyze new transactions and determine proper accounting/tax entries for financial reporting.
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations, stock position reconciliation, and trades to custody/brokerage statements. (around 20% of workload)
• Tax Planning – Work with third party tax accountant to manage tax planning for the office (around 10% of workload).
• Prepare Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Financial reporting.
• Organize and prepare office payables (around 5% of workload).
• Preparation of annual financial statements of all partnerships and trusts (around 25% of workload).
• Cash planning for upcoming capital calls, fundings, cash needs (around 5% of workload).
• Special Projects and other duties as assigned (around 15% of workload).